Department of Medicine

Cardiovascular Medicine Faculty

Carsten M. Schmalfuss, MD Division of Cardiovascular Medicine Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine e-mail: schmac@ufl.edu

Carsten Schmalfuss received his MD from the University of Essen, Germany in 1991. He completed a 2-year residency in Cardio-Thoracic Surgery and a year of Cardiology fellowship before coming to the United States in 1995. Here he completed his internship, residency and fellowship in Cardiology at Shands at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

Following this he became a full time Staff Cardiologist at the Malcom Randall VA Medical Center in Gainesville, Florida in 2002. At the same time he joined the Faculty of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at UF in the position of Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine.
His field of interest is noninvasive Cardiac Imaging, particularly the use of CT and MRI. He is also involved in several pilot projects using Telemedicine in outpatient cardiac care of veterans.

He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the Society of Cardiac MR.

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Academic Interests:

Dr. Schmalfuss is currently the Chair of the Subcommitee for Clinical Investigation at the VA. He is and has been involved in several clinical trials evaluating CT and MRI of the cardiovascular system.

Clinical Interests:

Noninvasive Cardiovascular Imaging, Telemedicine